I’m saying “nowt” …
I thought I’d get in before the deluge of tweets and blogs about grade boundaries, grade inflation, higher versus foundation (and so on) starts this week (no doubt there will be […]
August 2015
One exam board .. Part 1
I’ve split this post into two parts .. you know how I love to “rabble on”. This part looks at the most recent (since 2012) government documents relating to their (read […]
#ChineseSchool 2
People!! Let’s remember its TV. Before this week’s #ChineseTeachers started I checked my crystal ball and could see it all going horribly wrong but with a hint of a light at […]
#ChineseSchool .. oh dear ..
Read the following with a massive pinch of salt! (and also forgive any typos .. I will correct in the morning! I still have a floor to mop this evening!!)
GCSE 9 -1 New content – Two or more binomials
One of the topics that is new to the higher tier is “expanding two or more binomials”. When the subject criteria was published there was a […]
July 2015
Scheme of work 2015/16
I am currently working on putting together formal units for our scheme of work for each of the BigFat 50 (for the new GCSE) and Top 40 (for existing GCSE) and have done […]
Frequency Trees .. post ?/n!
Before you say anything … I have not broken my blogging break – I’m not really here! I had a blogging binge before I left ….
Anyway, […]
Time for a break …
Every holiday it takes me a few days to actually realise that I’m on a break and this one has been no different. I suspect it comes from (a) having been […]
GCSE 9-1 – Content changes 1
Lots has been written about the changes and with all the “hullaballoo” over the SAMs it seems apt to be able to document a definitive list (from my perspective) of the […]
GCSE 9-1 New content – Error Intervals
One of the new topics in both tiers (for all boards) is “use inequality notation to specify simple error intervals due to truncation or rounding”. I don’t get how using the […]
